The three-day 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference came to a successful conclusion in Shanghai on July 10. At the closing ceremony, Wu Qing, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, said that the World Artificial Intelligence Conference demonstrated to the world Shanghai’s firm determination to support the development of artificial intelligence and build the artificial intelligence “Shanghai Highland”.
Wu Qing said that this conference continues the experience and practices of last year’s Cloud Summit, adopting a combination of offline and online methods, and centering on the theme of “a world of intelligence and intelligence into a city” And the direction of “AI Empowering the Digital Transformation of Cities”, gathered top experts in AI academy and industry, gathered the cutting-edge achievements and viewpoints of the world’s artificial intelligence development, and demonstrated the latest practice of AI empowering the transformation and upgrading of thousands of industries , Depicting a brand-new blueprint for the healthy development of global artificial intelligence and collaborative and co-governance. It is an industry event for discussing martial arts, exchanges and cooperation, and demonstrating results. It is also an industry event that leads direction, inspires wisdom, and builds consensus.
“Shanghai has held four consecutive World Artificial Intelligence Conferences, and the conference has become a witness, witness and promoter of the development of the artificial intelligence industry.” Wu Qing said. According to incomplete statistics, as of 16:30 that day, the number of people watching the grand event of the conference on 166 radio and television media and traffic platforms reached 352 million.
The data previously obtained by the news from the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology shows that artificial intelligence, as one of the three key industries developed in Shanghai, has overcome the disadvantages brought about by the epidemic last year. Influence, meet the opportunities in crisis, and grow against the trend. As of 2020, Shanghai has 1,149 key artificial intelligence enterprises, forming a relatively complete artificial intelligence industry chain. The scale of the planned industry for the whole year reached 224.6 billion yuan, achieving a growth of about 50% against the trend. The recovery trend of the industry is obvious, with an average annual growth rate of 29.5% from 2018 to 2020. In recent years, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Qizhi Research Institute, Magnolia Open Source and Open Research Institute, Zhejiang University Advanced Research Institute, etc. have been inaugurated and operated, and the Processor Technology Innovation Center of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been launched. Two batches of 17 municipal-level artificial intelligence innovation centers were inaugurated, making breakthroughs in key areas such as artificial intelligence basic common technology, intelligent robots, AI+medical, AI+finance, and AI+manufacturing. Through the working mechanism of “Revealing the List and Taking the Lead”, Shanghai released 3 batches of 58 units’ scenario requirements, docking more than 280 companies and more than 500 solutions.
All of these have laid a solid foundation for Shanghai to build an artificial intelligence “Shanghai Highland” and build a world-class artificial intelligence industry cluster and research highland.
Wu Qing said that facing the future, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference will continue to adhere to high-end, international, professional, and marketableThe development direction of technology and intelligence promotes the dual improvement of energy level and quality, continuously consolidates the soft power of the platform, and accelerates to become the most influential top industry event in the world. “Shanghai will also give full play to the’head goose effect’ of artificial intelligence and regard artificial intelligence as a driving force for comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation and high-quality development.”
Finally , He sent an invitation: “Next year we will continue to hold the Fifth World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Here, I would like to officially send a sincere invitation to all the guests online and offline, people of insight in the global artificial intelligence, let us meet in 2022, Gather on the banks of the Huangpu River again.”